Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
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The ultimate vision of BrockBot is incredibly simple. You should have a team of AI bots that help you with your job and help you with your life. BrockBot is the hottest AI product in the world right now. That is a very high bar. There's a lot of competition for that slot. We wanted to build something that wasn't just a great product for developers and engineers. We decided to create this very small team internally, to go off into a cave for about a month with the sole objective of build an amazing knowledge work product that brings agents to the rest of the company. It's been only three weeks since launch. I went to a BrockBot meetup. There were hundreds of people there standing room only. It's very clear to me that you guys have built something very special. Once you start breaking out of this is AI chat with a set of connections. Instead to this is a colleague with a computer. It just raises the ceiling of what you would think to give to AI. You have this tweet and AI that does 100% of the job feels categorically different from one that gets you 90% there. What made me so excited to work on BrockBot is it was the first time for non-coding tasks that I felt like I could truly delegate work to AI. I have to think about it and I would come back and it's done. What is it that you think you did that is so different? That made BrockBot so successful. It was two early decisions that at the time definitely did not feel obvious but in hindsight I think are critical to what makes BrockBot work. Today my guest is Roman Ugarte. I'm going to keep this intro very short so we can get right into it. Roman was employee number 15 at Kurser. He has had a growth for the last two years. Most recently he helped incubate BrockBot, a product that I am obsessed with. It has changed my life. I use it a hundred times a day for all kinds of things. And I think it's safe to say it is the hottest and most exciting new AI product in the world right now. Roman leads product for BrockBot. He's been part of the core team from early prototype until today and we get into how it all started, where it's all going and all the things that he and his team have learned since it launched just a few weeks ago. With that I bring you Roman Ugarte. Roman thank you so much for being here and welcome to the podcast. Thank you. It is great to be here. I am so excited to have you here.
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